IGN - Is Metacritic Ruining The Games Industry?It also leads to some very dodgy behaviour from the publisher side of things. I’ve been told stories of PR executives working on particular games being directed to specifically target these smaller sites in the hope of raising that average score and covering up a less enthusiastic reception from the big outlets. For most people working in games marketing, Metacritic will come up during their annual review process, and a less-than-ideal average score for a game will sometimes result in a severe bollocking.

Prez wrote on Jul 18, 2012, 13:48:Hatred of The Old Republic is irrational? I thought it was terrible. Absolutely, utterly terrible. And I can list at least two dozen reasons why, which makes it not so irrational in my book.

It was pretty bad, but was it so bad that it warranted going to Metacritic and purposely bombing it with 0 score reviews? Is any game that bad for that matter? That's the irrational part.

The only way Metacritic could combat that is to have some way to verify that the user owns the game, but there's no easy way to do that for a 3rd party website.

I would have rated it around 4, and then only that high because it was stable and had good voice work.

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